3. New France – Expanding the French
colonies, these furs trading explorers wanted to take care of the lands they
settled in Canada and upper New England. They were explorers, not terribly
ideological, who wanted to trade. They integrated peacefully with Native
Americans and wanted to take care of the land.

4. Yankeedom –
Founders wanted to create a Puritanical fundamentalist
Utopia with mandated education, justice, rights for
all humans. They hated the English and most wanted freedom of Relegion as
long as it was their own.

5. New Netherlands –
Dutch founders wanted to trade furs and engage in
shipping from a cosmopolitan meeting place. Did not care about English
politics or slavery.

7. Tidewater – English gentry
created estates in Virginia using
indentured servitude
but they switched to slavery when the indentured servitude system degraded.

8. Deep South – English
traders from Barbados where they acquired resources using violence and
slavery. In Charleston they grew cotton in a society designed to benefit a
wealthy few.

9. Greater Appalachia –Mostly
lowland contrarians
from Scotland and Ireland came to escaped English domination. They
settled in poorer Appalachians lands. These hearty people valued individable
liberty.

10. The Left Coast – Ingenious
people who moved West to preserve the land's natural beauty. Wanted a
utopian planned educated community.

The Far West – Explorers,
hunters and a11. dventures were joined by East Coast anti-government
capitalists. They railroads and river transport to create wealth from mining, lumber and oil.

Elections 1788-1824England's Political Influence Finally
Ends and the South Has Some Success
in Controlling Northern Business Interests.The
causes of the American Revolution began as a disagreement over the way in which Great Britain treated
the colonies versus the way the colonies felt they should be treated.
Americans felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen.

Federalists favored unity through a strong
central government, close ties to Britain, a centralized banking system, and
close links between the government and the men of wealth who should run government.
Republicans under JeffersonMadison
and Monroe strongly opposed
Alexander Hamilton's Federalist agenda. They stressed being more of a Republic where the
individual is sovereign as opposed to democracy where the sovereign is
the group, the majority.

1788 1824

1)
Executive privilege was used by G.W. to keep
Jay Treaty documents
from Congress.
Other Presidents would claim the right, courts would
sometimes have to decide legality. Think NSA data
spying.
2) 1791 Whiskey Rebellion
against federal taxes failed. It would be the first of many fights
concerning federal government taxes.
Think The Tea Party.
3)
Quasi-War
with France was not escalated by Adams despite the desires of his Cabinet.
He used the
Alien and Sedition Acts to limited citizen rights as revolutionary ravaged
Europe caused US.
A few went to
jail . It would be the first of many attempts to have a US President and
Congress
to ignore the Constitution. Think the Pentagon
Papers, Syria,
ISIS and Iraq.
4) The "American
System" of internal improvements such as road- building, a national bank
to
encourage productive Eastern enterprises and a national currency
initiated by Alexander Hamilton
were financed by the "Tariff
of Abominations . The tariff caused the
Nullification Crisis
as states wanted to declare federal laws unenforceable. It resulted
with Adams to be a
one- term president. The fight over tariffs hurt middle
America and helped business.
continue until post WW II
Free Trade Agreements took their place.
Think 1994 North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and 2015 Trans
Pacific Partnership.
5)
First Barbary War, the first on foreign soil, stopped payment of tribute
to Mediterranean pirates. War on Terror Begins.6)
Louisiana Purchase of 1803
and
1819 and
1821 treaties brings U.S. Florida from Spain.
Later we would use
military force against Mexico to expand westward.
7) War of 1812
protected freedom of the Sea and ended hostilities with Britain. Not
being able to settle the fiscal problems caused by the war, in 1814 the U.S
defaulted on its deb.
8)
Bank of United States failed to have it's charter renewed in an attempt
to limit business influence
but paying for the War of 1812 required such an institution.
The battle of North/East business interest vs.
South and West rural interest continues today.
Think
Bailout
Prevention Act and the Tea
Party.
9) 1920 Missouri
Compromise admitted Maine as a fret state and Missouri as a slave state
which postponed the pain.
Think long-term
government liabilities being ignored to keep the present peaceful.10 )Monroe
Doctrine 1823 keeps U.S out of European politics and vice versa until WWI.

Elections 1828-1852Federalism vs.
State's Rights and Democracy vs. Republican the Fight Begins When the
Democratic-Republican Party of the Jefferson became factionalized in the
1820's Jackson's supporters began to form the modern
Democratic Party. It hoped to pass political power from established elites to
ordinary voters. It supported the primacy of the Presidency over the
other branches of the U.S. Federal government. They continued the
Bank War
by opposing renew the charter of Alexander Hamilton's Bank of the United
State. Democrats also opposed Whig sponsored
modernizing programs that they felt would build up
industry
at the expense of the
taxpayer.
These battles continue today! Democrats fought the rival
Adams and
Anti-Jacksonian factions which soon emerged as the
Whigs. They were led by
Henry
Clay who advocated the primacy of
Congress over the
Executive Branch as well as policies economic protectionism of
Northeastern industry.

Elections 1856-1896Civil War Ends, Northeast Takes Control,
The Gilded Age is Built on the Backs of the Poor, Especially Women, Immigrants, and BlacksThe civil War was followed by massive industrialization centered
on rail roads, canals and steamships. Massive wealth was
created. Farm mechanism lowered the cost of food and this coupled
with science made for a somewhat more prosperous middle class. Immigrants
suffered.

Elections1896-1928 Progressives and Populists
Finally End to the
Gilded Age But
Business Power Would Return
After WW I. The 1896
realigning election resulted in a republican forged conservative coalition
consisting of businessmen, professionals, skilled factory workers, and
prosperous farmers. There would be
opposition which created two unsettled decades called the Progressive Era. It was a period of social activism and political reform that flourished from the 1890s to the
early 1920s. One main goal of
the
Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government by
exposing
political machines and their bosses in hopes of creating a more direct democracy.
This put election reform high on the agenda. Progressives also
sought regulation of monopolistic
trust corporations through
antitrust laws which were seen as a means to promote fair
competition for the benefit of consumers. An increase post WW I Communist and Union activities
caused a fear of anarchy not seen since the French Revolution. It led to
public desire for a return to more peaceful
Republican led government. It would not be the last Red Scare.

Elections
1932-present
Party Control Flip Flops Like a
Yoyo
but Progress Is MadeRepublicans
were penalized by outrage
caused during the summer of 1932 by Veteran
Bonus Army deaths. It combined with the of Hoover's domestic policies.
Change
was demanded.

3.
Bailouts began 1975 New York City
$1.3b
paid back +interest 1979 Chrysler Motors
$1.5b
paid back +interest 1982 Oklahoma-basedPenn Square Bank $65m 1984 Continental
Illinois Bank
bailout $14b1980's Savings and Loan $124.6b[2]
2009-10 Great Recession TARP $24b,
Detroit $16b
4. Less Regulation Causes Trouble
Financial deregulation began in early 1970's and culminated with
Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999 which repealed the
Glass–Steagall Act enacted after the Great Depression. Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 minimized regulation
of financial derivatives
5. War on
Terror1 was named by George Bush II and it finally stuck after six months of
constant marketing. Attacks against the U.S. had been going on for many
years and while an attack on American soil was terrible, putting this
conflict of previous wars catastrophes, calling it a war is questionable.

The Ugly U.S.
Cost of War
1.
Nineteen-month World
War 1killed 116,516 from all causes with 204,002
wounded in action. The resulting peace treaty severely penalized Germany and divided
the Ottoman Empire among the winners. These winners continued their 19th Century
Western Colonialism, which planted the seeds for Arab Unrest.

2.
Four year World
War 2 killed 405,399 from all causes
with 670,660 wounded in action. Losers
were not
punished. Russian Bear having suffered26.6
military
and civilian deathsused their
newly occupied eastern European territory
to provide a protective buffer.
3.
Three year Korean
War killed 36,574 with 103,284 wounded in action.
South Korea remained free.
Japan felt safe and used a small
defense
budget to build industrial capital and rejoined the developed world.
43.
The very long Vietnam
War2
killed 58,220 with over 153,303 wounded withfew important positive results.As of 12/31/14 Afghanistan
War killed 2,312 with
20,026 wounded withfew important positive results.
As of 5/29/12 Iraq
War killed 4,425 with 32,223
wounded with few important positive results.

Author's Ramblings

1
The idea that Muslims Extremism is behind all military confrontations
in the Middle East and Africa reminds me of the Cold War. Then regime
change in Egypt and Syria and Para military confrontations in Central and
South American were all said to be inspired by Communist. Looking back neither Egypt
or Syria became Communistic and few of these conflicts resulted in
communist governments. Oligarch looking to control lesser developed
countries needed money and the
USSR would contribute to one side and the U.S. to the other side.
Today
conservative Muslims have the money!

2According to Henry Kissinger's biographer Walter
Isaacson, President Johnson's reason for U.S. involvement in Vietnam was called
the Domino Theory. The idea that Nation A falling to Communism would make it
easier for Nation B to fall and then C would fall quickly. This idea was
already being questioned when Nixon took offices. Henry's reason for taking
six years and not the
promised six months to withdraw from Vietnam was the importance of
maintaining U.S.
foreign policy creditability. No attempt was made to compare the
importance of credibility in relation to South-East Asia with that related to Central
Europe, the Middle East, Korea/Japan, Central America and at home.
Statements that
something will hurt the U.S. should always be followed by be how, how much, in relation to what,
at what cost
... About half of the U.S. Vietnam causalities occurred during the Nixon-Kissinger
watch even though both men entered office thinking the Vietnam War was not
winnable.